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  • Beneath the Magnolia
    Beneath the Magnolia Act I The magnolia garden was dead. Rosie knew this the way she knew her own name — not with the certainty of someone who had seen the death, but with the certainty of someone who was living inside it. The trees had been beautiful once, in some lifetime she had not been part of. Their white flowers had opened in May like small, perfect hands reaching up from the branches....
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  • What the Commission Entered Into Evidence
    The hearing room was on the third floor of a building in Geneva that had been designed to make you feel small—high ceilings, tall windows that admitted light but not warmth, a long table behind which three commissioners sat with their faces arranged in expressions of judicial neutrality. It was March 1983. Rose O'Connor was forty-five. She had not expected to be here, but then she had not...
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  • The House of Hollow Laughter
    The Last Goodbye The postcard came on a Thursday. It was postmarked from Mexicali, Mexico, and bore the familiar handwriting of a man I hadn't spoken to in seven years. Danny Rossi. I turned it over in my hands like a card in a poker game I didn't want to play but couldn't refuse to sit at. The front showed a picture of a desert landscape—brown hills, blue sky, a road that stretched off into...
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  • The Delacroix Manor had been beautiful once. Pearl could see it in the way the c
    She stood on the front porch—which sagged perceptibly under her weight—and watched a heron wade through the overgrown duck pond that had once been a formal garden. Everything in Charleston was either falling apart or pretending not to. Pearl preferred the ones that were honest about it. "Miss Pearl!" Mrs. Gable's voice drifted from next door, shrill as a kettle. "You there?" "Born here,...
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  • The Bio-Hierarchy
    The city of Neo-York was a vertical empire. At the top, in the floating spires of the Aether-District, lived the "Optimized"—people whose DNA had been edited into masterpieces of health and beauty. At the bottom, in the smog-choked alleys of the Sump, lived the "Naturals"—the biological leftovers, plagued by cancers, dementia, and the slow rot of unplanned evolution. Director Thorne sat in his...
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  • Groundwater
    The pipe broke at 3:17 in the morning on a Wednesday in October, and Lisa Vasquez was the third person called. The first two -- the night crew supervisor and the on-call maintenance manager -- had told her about it over the phone, their voices slurred with sleep and irritation. By the time Lisa arrived at the break site on East Sixteenth Street, a section of main had burst and water was pouring...
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  • The Observer in the Attic
    I see the world in frequencies. To the humans, I am just a cat with an unfortunate genetic glitch—three tails that twitch in a rhythm they cannot understand. To Elias, I am Muse. Elias is a translator of dead languages, a man who spends his days in a dusty attic in Upper East Side, turning ancient scripts into modern English. He is a man of profound silence, his life a series of footnotes. I...
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  • The Price of Scales
    The shipyard smelled of iron and sweat and the particular despair of men who know their bodies are failing them but their families depend on them anyway. Eamon O'Sullivan knew this smell. Twenty years old, Irish mother, Irish father, both born in Boston's North End, both worked in the navy yard, all three of them with calloused hands and tired eyes and a pride that was both their strength and...
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  • WHAT REMAINS WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT
    WHAT REMAINS WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUTA Collection of Ten Stories About FailureI. THE ENGINE THAT NEVER WASThe machine was in the garage behind Frank Doherty's house in Cleveland. It was approximately the size of a refrigerator, made of brass pipes and copper wire and glass tubes filled with a liquid that was never the same color twice. It hummed. It always hummed. A low, continuous sound that...
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  • The Lost Ingredients of the Fourth Generation
    The third time Clara made her grandmother's coconut cake, she forgot the sugar. It was not a small oversight. It was a structural collapse. The cake emerged from the oven as a dense, pale disc, its surface cracked like a dry riverbed. Clara looked at it, and she could not remember what she had left out. She tasted a crumb. It was not sweet enough, but it was not sour either. It was nothing. A...
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  • THE COLD EYE OF ORBIT
    I'd been trying to fix that water unit for two weeks when a guy from another dimension walked in and offered to buy my building. Best Tuesday I'd had in months. My name is Frank O'Connor. People call me Fixer because that's what I do — I fix things. Not just things, really. I fix problems. The kind of problems that don't fit into any category. Need someone to mediate a dispute with your...
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  • THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT GROUND ZERO
    ACT I: THE SHUTTER (20%) The photograph appeared on page three of The Metropolitan Ledger, beneath the headlines about stock prices and the theatre season. It showed a soldier—Tommy couldn't tell you which side, and neither could anyone else—kneeling in the ruins of a building, holding a child. The child might have been three years old. The child might have been five. The soldier's face was...
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